{"id":37954,"date":"2019-08-02T06:24:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T06:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=37954"},"modified":"2019-08-02T06:25:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T06:25:03","slug":"english-august-the-adjective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-august-the-adjective\/","title":{"rendered":"English: august, the adjective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about English: the tutor recalls&#8230;.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI remember, decades ago, hearing that <em>august<\/em> can be an adjective. I&#8217;m sure my sister told me so. What does it mean?\n<\/p><p>\naugust:impressive by way of grace, dignity, or greatness, and earning spontaneous respect due to same.\n<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Barber, Katherine et al. <em>Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English.<\/em> Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2005.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about English: the tutor recalls&#8230;. I remember, decades ago, hearing that august can be an adjective. I&#8217;m sure my sister told me so. What does it mean? august:impressive by way of grace, dignity, or greatness, and earning spontaneous respect &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-august-the-adjective\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: august, the adjective<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2825],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37956,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37954\/revisions\/37956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}